Brad Adams

Brad Adams is an American lawyer and the founder and executive director at Climate Rights International. Prior to that, he was the executive director of the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch from 2002–2022. Adams established what would become the East Bay Community Law Center, where he worked as a legal aid attorney. Adams later played basketball professionally for London Docklands.

Adams has a Master of Science in European Studies from the London School of Economics and a bachelor of arts in Economics from Pepperdine University, where he played baseball. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

Career Adams spent five years in Cambodia as the senior lawyer for the Cambodian field office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and as legal advisor to the Cambodian parliament’s human rights committee. from 2002–2022, overseeing investigations, advocacy and media work in twenty countries. He received a grant from the Berkeley Law Foundation to start the law center.